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Resounding poems of being as being-in-the-world, with personhood inextricable from landscape, language, and culture.
List of contents
Contents
Thing Music
The Day
Mouth Guitar
Thing Music
Speaker
Landscape for Brian Evenson
Let the Right One In
Death Valley for Noelle
The Nouns
Credo (Wind)
The City
The Shapes
The Shapes
Fetishism
Pleasure House
Like the Dirt (5 Ceremonies)
Mouth Guitar
Prodigals
Mouth Guitar
This Living Hand
The Selected
Susurrations
The Day (Paper Boat)
Poem
Amtrak on Hudson
Vow
Little Bodies
Bank Holiday
The Selected
Here they hunt the picturesque like beagles
On the night I was taken
I am melting for the fire
What a horrid climate
I am greedy of you
Loose a favorite bird
It would have pained me to have seen my own head
About the author
Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of I Heart Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006), and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the University of California-Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. He is the “Poet Laureate” of Machine Project, and also teaches courses at the California Institute of the Arts.
